If you’re old enough to remember the hanging chads, you aren’t surprised by what you’re seeing in Florida right now. The state’s ability to perpetually fail at holding reliable elections has made it a laughing stock across the country. Just in case you don’t remember previous incidents, here’s a little reminder. Florida almost always turns in the closest election results for any national ballot. That would be fine, but they constantly get caught in recounts because local election officials fail to follow the basics and report accurate results.
Here’s a little perspective on that. When the last person won the Mega Millions Jackpot, millions of tickets were sold anonymously across more than a dozen states. The winning ticket was tracked in real time — along with the total number of sold tickets and which location sold the winner. On the other hand, more than a week after the polls closed, no one is really sure who won the gubernatorial and Senate elections in Florida. It really highlights a problem, doesn’t it? Well, when you see the details of how Florida is bungling elections, you’ll realize that this is more than mere incompetence.
Broward County
If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you might have seen that the entire holdup and cause for recounts in Florida comes down to two counties—Broward and Palm Beach. This isn’t the first time either of these counties have done this either.
The more prominent of the two is Broward County (home to sunny Ft Lauderdale). It has a pretty good track record of bungling elections and making a general mockery of the democratic process. You won’t be surprised to learn that it’s heavily Democratic and the elections are run entirely by the left.
Here are just a few of the current problems ailing Broward County in this election. As of the close of polls on Election Tuesday, Broward reported 634,000 total votes. A week later, that number had risen above 707,000. How are so many votes coming in after the polls close? Nobody has an answer to that.
As a natural response to this flagrant incompetence and possible corruption, Rick Scott has sued the election officials to turn over a mass of voting data. He won that lawsuit. In response, the Democrats in charge began destroying ballots and other information. If that doesn’t scream corruption, then nothing does. This has quickly turned Hillary emails version 2.0.
Brenda Snipes
No, we’re not done with Broward yet. Have you heard the name Brenda Snipes before? She’s the person who supervised this corrupt election process in Broward. Criticism against her, even from the left, has been so intense that she has suggested she’ll step down after the recounts finish. When CNN agrees with Fox News about something, you know there’s a big problem.
The most frustrating thing about Snipes is that this isn’t the first election she has corrupted. In 2016, another very tight race in Broward was due for after-election data checks. Basically, it was so close that third parties were given the right to review the whole ordeal. After a court ordered Snipes and her staff to retain ballots and voter registration information, she destroyed it all.
Now, it doesn’t speak well to Florida that they kept Snipes in power, but it’s important to understand that she has been elected and re-elected to her position. The Democrats in Broward have absolutely no problem with the way she runs things. They have endorsed her corruption and empowered her to do it again and again.
The thing you need to understand about this story is how unexceptional Snipes is. She’s a standard Democrat. If you still have any doubts, she’s tried to blame criticism against her election process on racism. What a classic!
St. Clair, Illinois
The best way to understand that this is a rampant problem with Democrats and not an isolated incident is to look to another state. Illinois has had plenty of election scandals themselves. This year, a Republican election official in St. Clair County live tweeted the problems as she spotted them. Her name is Peggy A Hubbard, by the way, and her discoveries were incredible. She saw a man with multiple driver’s licenses, a woman that didn’t live in the county, a 92 year old with dementia and a man so drunk he didn’t know his own name. Democrats tried to allow all of them to vote. Thankfully, Hubbard did her job and prevented each case.
In elections past, she has caught city council officials literally trying to bribe votes with alcohol, illegal solicitation at the polls and 75 unique votes all from the same address. Yet, the Democrats will still tell you that voter fraud never happens.
When you tally all of Hubbard’s encounters, it might not look like much, but these are just the infractions she caught. She’s also only one judge in one county in the whole country. If you multiply her experiences by the 3,000 counties across the country, you’ll find plenty of opportunity for voter fraud and illicit behavior. It’s certainly enough to swing a few tight races.
There’s a final note to hit on Hubbard’s story. Every single infraction she stopped was committed by a Democrat. None involved Republicans, independents or third parties. It is one group and one group alone that is creating this problem. You probably already knew that, but having some solid proof really drives the point home.
Let’s put this all together. Democrats have been caught cheating in elections. They’ve been caught all over the country, and it’s been happening for years. They know they’re doing it. They’re proud that they’re doing it, and still, in the face of all of it, they have the gall to call voter IDs a voter suppression tactic. That should tell you everything you need to know about the left.
They have reached the pinnacle of corruption, and it’s long past time to get rid of them. If another Democrat ever wins another election, at any level, we have failed.
